Tool-handle



J. L. 086000., TOOL HANDLE. APPLICAIION FILED DEC. 16, 1918.

1,355,685. Patented 0@.12,1920.

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JOHN L. oseoon, or BUFFALO, NEW Y RK,

TOOL-HANDLE.

Application filed December 16, 1918. Serial mh-zeassa.

T all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, JOHN Oscoon, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 7 ing into the body Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new. and useful Improvement in T ool-Handles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to wooden tool handles of the kind used for files and other hand tools having a slender tapering tang which is driven into an axial hole in one end of the handle for securing the handle on the tool. The handle is retained on the tool by friction and works loose in the use of the tool so thatthe tang has to be driven farther and farther into the handle from time to time to properly secure the tool, with the resultthat the handle is sooner or later split or destroyed unless it is suitably reinforced. The small inner end or neck of these handles is usually surrounded by a metal ferrule, but as ametal grip or metal surface on the portion of the handle which is grasped by hand is objectionable for various reasons, these ferrules are made short and small and they do not prevent the splitting of the handles. Various kinds of reinforcements have been proposed for such handles, but they either add materially to the cost of the handles or are obiectionable for one or another reason.

The object of this invention is to produce a tool handle of the kind described which has the extended wood grip, the wood socket to receive the tang of the tool and other recognized advantages of the ordinary wood handle, but is provided with reinforcing means which, while effectually preventing the splitting of the handle and making it stronger and more durable, is so simple and inexpensive as not to add appreciably to the cost of production of the handle.

This is accomplished by pressing or drivof the handle between the exterior surface thereof and the center of the handle containing the tang hole, a thin, metal ring or short tube which is left embedded in the handle at, or about the inner end of the tang hole and a considerable distance from the end of the handle. In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section,

showing a tool handle embodying the invention. I

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary section Specification of Itetters Patent. Patented 0 1;; 1 2, 1920. I

showing the handlebefore the reinforcing ring is driven fully into place.

Fig. 3 is a similar section of the com- I pleted handle.

Fig. .4 is a transverse sectionthereof' on line 44, Fig. 3.

A represents a handle for a file or other tool B, having a tang 10 adapted to be driven into'an axial hole 11 in the end of the handle. Wood hascertain recognized advantages for the handles of hand tools,

and the handle is, therefore, preferably made of wood, but other suitable material could be employed. In this specification the word wood is intended to cover other suitable material analogous in characteristics to wood. The handle may be of the usual or any suitable shape, but. it preferably has theusual short neck or reduced end portion surrounded'and protected by a short metal ferrule 12, the inner end of which is prefer.-

ably driven a short distanceinto the shoulder 13 0f the handle to secure the. ferrule in place.

14 represents a short, thin. metal tube or ring which is embedded in the handle at, or about the inner end of the tang hole, and extends longitudinally of the handle between the exterior thereof and the tang hole or longitudinal axis of the handle. The ringis much shorter than thetang hole and is located a considerable distance inwardly from the endfof the handle, thus leaving a substantial portion of the tang hole unsurrounded by the ring. The ring being thin and having a relatively thin and sharp edge. can be readily pressed or driven into the handle by means of a press equipped with a suitable tubular punch, without first cutting or recessing the handle for the reception of the ring except to make 7 a shallow annular starting recess in the end of the handle for guiding the ring. After the ring has been pressed into the handle the wood will expand again between the ring and the outer end of the handle so that the core 15 of wood which is located within 7 While, therefore, the ring is adapted to prevent the splitting of the handle, the portion of the core not surrounded by the tube or ring is not rigidly confined and is adapted to expand more or less as the tang is driven into the hole, and the core 15 is not apt to be split. by thewedging action of the tang. Furthermore, the tang of the tool is not apt to strike the short tube or ring at the inner end of the tang hole and interfere with the firm seating of the tang in the handle because the extremity of the tangvis slender, whereas the wider base or inner end of a wide tang might'engage the outer end of the ring or tube 14 if it extended to or near to the end of the handle.

I claim as my invention:

1; A tool lhandle formed of a single piece of slightly expansible material, and having 7 a tang hole in one, end thereof to receive the tang; of a tool, and a thin metal ring which is adapted to be forced into said handle between the exterior thereof and said tang hole, said ring being short and embedded in the handle adjacent the inner end only of the tang hole and asubstantial distance inwardly from the end of the'handle, and leaving a central expansible core portion which contains said tang hole, and

which is free to expand as the tang is forced a into said tang hole.

2. A tool handle 'formedjof a single piece of slightly expansible material, and having in the handle adjacent the inner end of said tang hole, thereby leaving a central core between said ringaa'nd the end of'said handle which is free to expand as the tang is forced into said tang hole. H s 3.'A tool handle having a tang hole in one end thereof, to receive the tang ofga tool, a short ferrule surrounding the end of said tang hole, and a thin metal ring which is adapted to be forced into said end of the handle between the exterior thereof of the handle adjacent the outer end only 7.

andsaidtang hole, said, ring being, short.vv

andembedded in the handle adjacent the inner end only of said tang hole and terminating a substantial distance from said ferrule, and leaving a central integral divided core portion of the handle between said ring and said ferrule which is free to expand, as

the tang is forcedfinto said tang hole.

Witness my handthis 14th day -of D e-f cember, 1918. N

M. J. PrrMAN.

JOHN noseooD a 

